Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1311 [Hard]

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This problem was asked by Google.

A quack is a data structure combining properties of both stacks and queues. It can be viewed as a list of elements written left to right such that three operations are possible:

• push(x): add a new item x to the left end of the list
• pop(): remove and return the item on the left end of the list
• pull(): remove the item on the right end of the list.

Implement a quack using three stacks and O(1) additional memory, so that the amortized time for any push, pop, or pull operation is O(1).

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